The meaning of a consultation with the diabetes nurse specialist.

Objective: The aim of this study was to elucidate the essential meaning of a consultation between diabetes nurse specialists and patients to gain a deeper understanding of the patients' experiences.

Methods: Twenty patients with type 2 diabetes were interviewed about their experience of a consultation at an annual check-up with the diabetes nurse specialist. A phenomenological hermeneutic method was used in the analysis and interpretation of the text.

The lived experience of the diabetes nurse specialist regular check-ups, as narrated by patients with type 2 diabetes.

Aim: The aim was to elucidate the lived experience of regular diabetes nurse specialist check-ups among patients with type 2 diabetes.

Background: Diabetes care with diabetes nurse-led clinics in primary care has been established in Sweden since the 1980s. Information about patients' lived experience of these regular check-ups is important in the further development of diabetes nursing in primary care.

[Examination of peripheral sensibility. Vibration test is more sensitive than monofilament test].

Diabetes mellitus is often attended by complications such as neuropathy. A standardized examination method can presumably facilitate identification of patients with peripheral neuropathy. A study was carried out for the purpose of evaluating monofilament examination as a compliment to vibration testing in the workup of peripheral sensibility.